One line about the main character of Disgrace, Professor David Lurie:He has always been a man of the city, at home amid a flux of bodies where eros stalks and glances flash like arrows.
And then one of his thoughts:
To me certain animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging.
He is a complicated man, probably more evil than good. And totally unlike any of us and totally the same.